My practice is influenced and directed by refuse, lost and overlooked elements of daily life. I incorporate into my work found and discarded materials, including textiles and objects, juxtaposing these remnants to produce records of contemporary life. Acting as a modern-day scavenger of my own refuse and that of others, I repurpose abandoned everyday objects in an effort to expose the human traces woven into these materials, to redirect the waste of our consumer culture and to reflect on the precarious narrative that links us to each other.

I find stories within the discarded remnants of mass produced objects, elevating them as icons of interpersonal connections and as relics of ephemerality, memory, passage and loss. These stories are born from deeply personal and broadly collective experiences, shared mythologies anchored in an urban environment. The materials and objects that we no longer want and that we leave behind retain the traces of our lives and of our bodies, therefore becoming testimonies.

I explore the connection between these rejected objects and the body that engaged with it, considering our relationship to the world around us through our abandoned materials. The internal/emotional landscapes that I create are a study of the spaces we inhabit daily, starting with the body, the first place that contains us.

In conversation with my solitary studio practice which is driven by the handmade process, I develop site-specific and community-based public art sculptures that touch on human interrelation, collectiveness and the sense of place towards the environment one inhabits daily. I am interested in exploring the special attachment people have towards the place they live, work or spend time in, in order to develop a feeling of belonging and a sense of care for their surroundings. The human figure or presence, with a particular interest in its outline, trace or voice, is at the core of my public work and play with ideas of memory and the mark we leave on places and others. In my work, I am interested in exploring the relationship between individual and space, how the place we evolve in form us and impact us over time.

Through my socially-engaged public art installations, I intend to connect the participants, the sculptures, the audience and the site itself. With a participatory and a site-specific approach, I am interested in turning daily life and day to day routine into an out of the ordinary experience for the participants and audience alike, triggering conversations and interaction among people in the public and shared space. I use art as a tool to connect people who may not interact with each other on a daily basis. I am also interested in making visible individuals, work, experiences that can be at times overlooked. In my previous projects, I have highlighted individuals experiencing homelessness, people who clean parks, security guards, sanitation workers, can collectors but also long time residents of gentrified neighborhoods.